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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22474, 8 January 1943, Page 4

"The last thing the Japanese desired to see was immemorial China united and in modern battle-dress,” states The Times. ‘ When the challenge came in 1937 Chiang did not hesitate. He did not misjudge his country’s faith and fortitude, though none knew its unpreparedness better than he. Through five years ot war—marked on the Japanese part by shameless savageries—the Generalissimo, with Madame Chiang at his side, has been the stay of his own people and the inspiration of free men and women everywhere. The China that emerges victorious from this war will have won a new unity and taken a new place, her rightful place, among the Powers of the East. The day of the ‘unequal’ treaties has gone. Extra-territorialit;, Is a word that belongs to a past order Resurgent China will have the power to claim and to grant the liberties that -Will mark the first achievement of her (destiny as a modern State ranking herself in partnership with the rest of the United Nations for the attainment of those material benefits, within the gift of science and organisation, too long denied to her people by civil strife and war.” • • • • p Whatever is made by the hand of Lman. by the hand of man may be (overturned - George Herbert.